ROTTEN TOMATOES: Nicholas Barber

NICHOLAS BARBER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications: Independent, Independent on Sunday

Total Reviews: 30

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh	Fresh 81%	Departures (2009)	" This heartfelt, unpretentious, slyly funny Japanese film is worth waiting for." — Independent on Sunday Posted Dec 11, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 33%	Cracks (2009)	" Jordan Scott's debut film is essentially a picturesque, slow-motion montage of boarding school pastimes: diving practice, a midnight feast, parcels from home, low-level bitching. I kept hoping Dumbledore would pop in and liven things up." — Independent on Sunday Posted Dec 11, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 44%	The Box (2009)	" The Box is by no means as indigestible as Southland Tales, and there's as much to relish as there is to groan at." — Independent on Sunday Posted Dec 11, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 15%	Mr. Right (2009)	" It means well, but it's one of those shoddy, very-low-budget British films that don't merit even a tiny release." — Independent on Sunday Posted Dec 4, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 89%	S�raphine (2008)	" It's like reading the introductory essay in an exhibition catalogue, except that it takes two hours. Personally, I couldn't stop thinking of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent." — Independent on Sunday Posted Dec 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 46%	Nativity! ()	" Isitt's attitude seems to be that a coherent story and some half-decent jokes are surplus to requirements when you can point a camera at some perky children singing and dancing." — Independent on Sunday Posted Dec 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" Law Abiding Citizen tries to be two kinds of exploitation film at once, and it ends up as neither." — Independent on Sunday Posted Dec 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" So tedious and stupid that it makes last year's Twilight seem like Nosferatu." — Independent on Sunday Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 50%	Glorious 39 (2009)	" Prestigious and serious-minded, but it's still nonsense." — Independent on Sunday Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" It's certainly a novel approach, but it stops the story engaging us either as an espionage thriller or as a comic caper." — Independent on Sunday Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 57%	Delta (2008)	" Slow, laconic Hungarian art-house fare, featuring rape, pig slaughter, and a symbolic tortoise." — Independent on Sunday Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	O'Horten (2009)	" The awkward courtship of these two tongue-tied singletons makes for a winning tragicomic romance, with a dab of magic realism, but it's not recommended as a date movie." — Independent on Sunday Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Momma's Man (2008)	" It's a quiet film, with its own measured pace, but it has more painfully astute observations than most comedies with 10 times the budget." — Independent on Sunday Posted May 13, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 87%	Sounds Like Teen Spirit ()	" Johnson never hits on a story that's worth telling, and his arch interjections about the contest marking the end of war in Europe hit all the wrong notes. Where's Terry Wogan when you need him?" — Independent on Sunday Posted May 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 24%	Little Ashes (2009)	" It's an interesting scenario, but its workaday execution couldn't be further from the avant-garde aspirations of its protagonists." — Independent on Sunday Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 54%	Cheri (2009)	" The film works best when it's being a comedy of bad manners. Hampton has honed some glittering, dartlike lines of dialogue, and they're tossed around with poised aplomb by the immaculately dressed cast." — Independent on Sunday Posted May 13, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 89%	Coraline (2009)	" It's easy to admire the film's psychedelic surrealism and its marvellous design, but it's not a great deal of fun." — Independent on Sunday Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)	" By the time Cruz appears, Vicky Cristina Barcelona has delivered on those initial good omens: it's Allen's best film in at least a decade." — Independent Posted Feb 10, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 8%	The Number 23 (2007)	" The answers to the story's questions are even sillier than the questions." — Independent on Sunday Posted Feb 26, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 85%	Bamako (2006)	" That the G8's policies have been disastrous for Africa won't come as news to anyone who goes to see African art-house films." — Independent on Sunday Posted Feb 26, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 91%	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)	" Doesn't have much to say except that Japanese are human beings, too." — Independent on Sunday Posted Feb 26, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 53%	Sheitan (2006)	" An eyecatching calling card for its first-time director." — Independent on Sunday Posted Feb 26, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 24%	School for Scoundrels (2006)	" It's funny at first, but then loses its way so badly that it somehow winds up as a high-tech espionage thriller." — Independent on Sunday Posted Feb 26, 2007
Fresh	Rotten 56%	The Good Shepherd (2006)	" It's a film for fans of John Le Carre, rather than Ian Fleming." — Independent on Sunday Posted Feb 26, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Old Joy (2006)	" Like a Raymond Carver story, it seems nothing much at first sight, but its crystallised moment reveals further dimensions the more you muse on it." — Independent on Sunday Posted Jan 28, 2007
Fresh	Fresh 62%	Blood Diamond (2006)	" DiCaprio deserves his Oscar nomination for the breathtaking intensity of his performance." — Independent on Sunday Posted Jan 28, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 45%	Bobby (2006)	" It makes you wish you were watching a biopic of Robert Kennedy instead." — Independent on Sunday Posted Jan 28, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 51%	The Fountain (2006)	" The Fountain's message is that life is short, so we should make the most of it, and that's a message which should take one of two centuries, and one or two hairstyles, at most." — Independent on Sunday Posted Jan 28, 2007
Rotten	Rotten 42%	Lives of the Saints (2006)	" Comes across as an obscure Renaissance play which has been badly modernised." — Independent on Sunday Posted Jan 28, 2007
Rotten	Fresh 89%	Venus (2006)	" A threadbare comedy-drama, with an insubstantial story and the patronising, post-Pygmalion theme of a working-class slob being reformed by the power of art." — Independent on Sunday Posted Jan 28, 2007

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